Joyce Campbell (b. 1971 New Zealand) is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, photography, film and video installation who's recent work utilizes anachronistic photographic techniques to examine the collision of natural and cultural systems. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland Elam School of the Arts and has lectured in studio art at Claremont Graduate University, Scripps College, University of California, Irvine and California State University, Northridge while occasionally working as a freelance curator and art writer. She has participated in numerous solo exhibitions including Joyce Campbell: Te Taniwha/Crown Coach at Pitzer College Art Galleries in Claremont, CA (2012); Te Taniwha at Two Rooms in Auckland, New Zealand (2010), Hastings City Art Gallery (2012) and at McNamara Gallery in Wanganui, New Zealand (2010); LA Botanical and Last Light at Christchurch Art Gallery in Te Puna o Waiwhetu, New Zealand (2010); Crown Coach Botanical at Two Rooms in Auckland, New Zealand (2008); LA Botanical at G727 in Los Angeles, CA and at Starkwhite in Auckland, New Zealand (2007); and Growth and Change at California State University, San Marcos, CA (2006). She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including Che Mondo at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Los Angeles, CA (2013) BROODWORK: It’s About Time at Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, CA (2011); Antarctica at Pitzer Art Galleries, Pitzer College in Claremont, CA (2007); Nature (Interrupted) at 18th Street Art Center in Santa Monica, CA (2007); Contemporary Landscape Photography at Millard Sheets Art Center in Pomona, CA (2007); Tools of Survival at McNamara Gallery in Wanganui, New Zealand (2007); Artists Who Teach at Sam Francis Gallery in Santa Monica, CA (2006); Faculty Exhibition at Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College in Claremont, CA (2005); Brittle City at Gallery 727 in Los Angeles, CA (2005); and The Garden Lab Experiment in Pasadena, CA (2004). Campbell was a recipient of University of California Inter-campus Arts research Grant in 1998. In 2006, she was selected as one of the Antarctica New Zealand/Creative New Zealand Artists to Antarctica Programme awardees. In 2007, she was awarded an ARC Grant from The Durfee Foundation. Campbell is represented by McNamara Gallery in Wanganui, New Zealand, Two Rooms in Auckland, New Zealand and Nadene Milne Gallery in Arrowtown, New Zealand. She is also a member of Artists Pension Trust Los Angeles. Campbell lives and works in New Zealand and, periodically, in the United States.

Joyce Campbell has a BFA(1992) from Canterbury University and an MFA with honours(1999) from The University of Auckland. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Creative Practice at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is represented by McNamara Gallery in Wanganui, New Zealand, Two Rooms in Auckland, New Zealand and Nadene Milne Gallery in Arrowtown, New Zealand. Joyce is a member of Artists Pension Trust Los Angeles.

My research lies at the intersection between academic specialties within creative practice, science and philosophy. My recent, ongoing research project Te Taniwha, extends this interdisciplinary reach to encompass Maori mythology, while my doctoral research anticipates a further extension from photographic practices into visionary literature and film. Underlying my interest in these divergent disciplines is a persistent questioning of the function of visual art during a time of rapidly accelerating global environmental crisis. My aim is to produce research that is simultaneously rigorous and true to several paradigms; that is both objective and opinionated, and that functions as documentary, as activism and as divination. I am a photographer who makes images of landscapes and of objects within landscapes. Recent theorization of such photography has been dominated by assertions of the sublime as a quality of both Nature and art. At a time when Nature stumbles and fails, this analogy is becoming distended to the point of collapse. I am attempting to theorize and visualize an ecology that is no longer overwhelming beyond imagination or speech, but rather is limited, damaged, injured and defiled, or resistant, volitional and responding with fury. To further my research goals, I have found myself turning to the sacred, the visionary and the mythological, and to primal images and experiences of the maternal body becoming animal.

Campbell, Joyce. Bloom: A Series of Infiltrations, The George Fraser Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, Fiat Lux Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, Triangle Television, New Zealand, www.artspace.org.nz, Area Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, 1999